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By Sparkling Earrings
October 2nd 2009

Day 20 North America » Canada » British Columbia » Kamloops

October 2, 2009 Today we drove most of the day. We left the cabin in Johnston Canyon at about 9am. The road out of Banff and into British Columbia was difficult because it started to snow!!! But we carried on…stopped in a small town and ate lunch (the afore mentioned ham sandwiches) in the car! I was disappointed that we couldn’t see the views in B.C. but the fog was so thick that all the peaks were hidden. We arrived at Kamloops B.C. at about 3:30pm. Somewhere along the way the time changed again and we are now 3 hours behind [View Full Entry]

By Martha Van Mollison
October 2nd 2009

Why Lake Louise? North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff National Park

Lake Louise in the early morning
Just like a mirror

Why Lake Louise? Once upon a time, a newly married couple were having breakfast in a tiny motel dining room overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Diamond Head—in AUSTRALIA, a bit north of Myall Lakes. Though the view out the large picture window was the main attention getter, on one small patch of wall there was a gorgeous poster of Lake Louise in British Columbia, Canada. “I was there once -- it's so beautiful,” she gushed. Then, airily, “One day I'll take you there.” That was 35 years ago, and Martha is FINALLY able to keep that promise to Phil. The newlywe [View Full Entry]

By The Ratliff Journey
October 2nd 2009

Day 1: Destination Whitehorse.... Success! North America » Canada » Yukon » Whitehorse

Day 1, Destination: Whitehorse.... Success!!!! So today is the big day! We wake up at 6:00 and get ready to hit the road. Our goal was to get on the road before 8:00 a.m. It was hectic, but we got the kids up and ready, the dogs went and did their business and we left the hotel just a little after 8:00. We stop at the gas station and fill up the gas cans and head for the weigh station. For those of you who don't know, we have to drug our dog Reggie because when he gets in the car [View Full Entry]

By Jeepa and Weedie
October 2nd 2009

test blog North America » Canada » Ontario » Stratford

Jeepa and Weedie's last camp/bike adventure
Here's goodbye to summer and hello to our new adventure!

Hank and I are just setting this up for our great adventure to come. We go for 3 days of training in Toronto on the 20th of this month. Will get to meet our fellow crew members! Please give us some feedback so we know this blog is working. Any creative ideas and suggestions are also welcome! Thanks everyone. Love Jeepa and Weedie. [View Full Entry]

By Sarah1980
October 2nd 2009

All Booked! North America » Canada » Ontario » Toronto

Have booked our Round the World Ticket. Leave to fly to Toronto on 1st November. The countdown is on!! Planning on visiting Toronto, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and India. Can't wait.........x x [View Full Entry]

By Cate85
October 2nd 2009

end of summer North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

Photo 2

hi all. We are settling into Banff and looking forward to the next few months, learning how to snowboard, snowmen, snowball fights, eggnog, etc. Last week it was 32 degrees but today it is 6 and we are surrounded by clouds and 'flurry' snow that melts before it hits the ground, and the mountains are all snowy and needless to say it is very cold and it is only going to get colder. Beck and Pip are here with us now which is really nice, we are currently all sharing a room at the hostel, which has been fun, like having [View Full Entry]

By gilram
October 2nd 2009

Vancouver North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

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The Naam, famous 24 hour vegetarian restaurant

On September 24th, I finally arrived in Vancouver where I ended up for a whole week staying at Geoff and Randy's place, two amazingly generous hosts. Vancouver is a nice and laid-back city in a beautiful situation: surrounded by the pacific ocean. Some things I did in Vancouver: biking, exploring, enjoying beautiful sunsets at wreck beach, a theatre festival, listening to street musicians, parks, downtown, Chinatown, Stanley Park, good restaurants, sushi, coffee places, bars, the museum of anthropology, a salmon festival,... You can see for yourself in the pictures. [View Full Entry]

By Sparkling Earrings
October 1st 2009

Day 19 North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff National Park

The Road to Banff

October 1, 2009 A quiet day that began with a ride to the town of Banff; another beautiful trip with mountain views that left us breathless. The town reminded us of Europe…quaint shops lining streets that sit at the base of mountains that stand like giant sentries…but my goodness how expensive things were. Donna and I had an interesting experience in the grocery store. We were trying to buy a pound of ham to make sandwiches for our lunch on the road tomorrow… (Being frugal) but everything here is in metric and being the ugly Americans that we are…we don’t kno [View Full Entry]

By paulahays
October 1st 2009

Leg 3, Blog 4 North America » Canada » Quebec » Gatineau

Parliment Building

These are some photos of downtown Ottawa. If you don’t already know (and I didn’t), Ottawa, Ontario, is the capital of Canada and just across the Ottawa River from the province of Quebec. All the people are bilingual, as you might imagine. Some have a French accent; some don’t. There’s also a mix of other cultures - people from the mid East and Asia and other parts of the world. Very cosmopolitan. Some years ago Bob and I drove along part of the Rideau Canal and used our kayaks on a portion, going through at least four locks - twice - [View Full Entry]

By Cathmandu
October 1st 2009

On the road again! North America » Canada » British Columbia » Prince Rupert

Well, here I am again... Somewhere new, with my backpack. Waw. I love it already. I left 2 days ago, drove down to Skagway with Harvey and it was just a perfect day. Nice and sunny, not a cloud in the sky. The Yukon Gold is not all in the river beds... It's also in the trees! It was so beautiful with the fresh snow on the mountain tops and the gold, green and red colors, fall at its best. The Carcross Road is just one of the most beautiful places in the north I think. We went for a walk [View Full Entry]

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